Engineering Manager, Platform

Lead and grow a team of platform engineers, supporting their development through mentorship, feedback, and clear technical guidance.

Drive execution on key product initiatives from ideation through launch, balancing speed with high standards of reliability and quality.

Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across engineering practices and team processes.

Engage deeply in technical discussions, guiding system design decisions and helping the team navigate architectural tradeoffs.

Stay up to date with relevant industry trends, emerging tools, and developer practices that will inform future team learning and opportunities for investment.

Help the team break down complex problems into incremental milestones that deliver value quickly while supporting long-term platform evolution.

Ensure teams maintain a strong understanding of the developer experience and reliability, security, and velocity impact of the features they build.

Partner closely with other teams like Runtime, Security, and Product to understand needs, align priorities, and ensure delivery of impactful features and solutions through thoughtful technical solutions and product roadmaps.

8+ years as an Engineer on an Infrastructure or similarly shaped team shipping products or features for other developers.

4+ years of experience managing people and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance management.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and design.

Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in system design, architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.

Ability to translate engineering goals and user needs into roadmaps and shipped features.

A strong sense of ownership and accountability for both team outcomes and long-term system health.

Experience improving Reliability and/or Developer Experience through tooling, processes, and team practices.

Deep experience with open source technologies supporting an internal platform tool or cluster, build & deployment systems, CI/CD, observability, and/or configuration management.

Background working on highly scalable distributed systems or infrastructure platforms.

Experience on teams managing large fleets of developer environments, sandboxes, or testing ecosystems.

Experience building platforms and/or products used directly by developers.

If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need.